List out some reasons for process termination.

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List out some reasons for process termination...

Answer / guest

Normal completion,
Time limit exceeded,
Memory unavailable,
Bounds violation,
Protection error,
Arithmetic error,
Time overrun,
I/O failure,
Invalid instruction,
Privileged instruction,
Data misuse,
Operator or OS intervention,
Parent termination.

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List out some reasons for process termination...

Answer / miss clever

* Batch job issues halt instruction
* User logs off
* Process executes a service request to terminate
* Error and fault conditions
* Normal completion
* Time limit exceeded
* Memory unavailable
* Bounds violation; for example: attempted access of
(non-existent) 11th element of a 10-element array
* Protection error; for example: attempted write to
read-only file
* Arithmetic error; for example: attempted division by zero
* Time overrun; for example: process waited longer than
a specified maximum for an event
* I/O failure
* Invalid instruction; for example: when a process tries
to execute data (text)
* Privileged instruction
* Data misuse
* Operating system intervention; for example: to resolve
a deadlock
* Parent terminates so child processes terminate
(cascading termination)
* Parent request

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List out some reasons for process termination...

Answer / outsider

one of the reasons is when process terminates is that when
it finishes executing it's final statement.

when parent get terminated some os not
allow the child to completes it's task so whenever the
parent get terminated it automatically make child termination

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List out some reasons for process termination...

Answer / sanjay

the most case this happened by
1.deadlock
2.resource is not available.
3.CPU is not available.

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